It’s over with, and it wasn’t too painful. At least I remembered to update my WP-Config this time. :)
That said, I’ve been hearing horror stories from others who’ve tried to upgrade, so I guess I’m counting myself lucky. So far I’ve updated this site and BYKYC. I’ll most likely be doing the others later this week (or whenever time allows).
My darling Jim passed this gem to me and I know there are a couple readers here who’ve asked me if I knew of such a thing: WordPress Automatic Upgrade. The website says it’s compatible with the latest version of WP, but I have not yet had a chance to try it out myself. (may do so on a less ‘popular’ site, LOL!)
An update on things …
New Orleans was fun, but like all vacations it wasn’t long enough. Work has been absolute Hell lately, and the insurance company that we’ve been trying to settle with (remember my wreck, going on 2 months ago?) is giving us the run-around, so I’m stressing a bit more than usual.
To those who’ve asked about the Lunarpages WordPress Theme Design contest, no I didn’t win anything. But I am VERY grateful to those who voted for me! There’s been some speculation as to how the deciding votes (LP staff?) really came out, but in all honesty I’m just happy being nominated … for now. ;P
Speaking of theme designs, I’ve submitted a handful of mine to the new WordPress Theme Directory. So hopefully those will show up soon. :)
SA on the slow track …
I feel pretty bad that I haven’t gotten as much done on my Soldiers’ Angels stuff as I’d hoped. I am beginning to think that maybe I’ve bitten off more than I can chew in helping the warehouse/donations tracking, Walmart grants, all the websites, and even my own projects here for SA of Alabama. I’m feeling VERY overwhelmed, and frankly a little disappointed because the local response hasn’t gone as well as I’d been hoping.
There is a glimmer of hope though. A gentleman waved at me while stopped at a redlight last week and told me that he saw my bumper stickers (Soldiers’ Angels) and that he just had to thank me for supporting our soldiers. I’m not in SA for any kind of recognition or personal glory, but it IS nice feeling appreciated, and reminds me of why I want to do so much …
Geekery
About three weeks ago I heard from one of my old Neopets buddies, Rose. We talked for a bit and caught each other up on how our families were doing, and the usual. She nudged me about possibly re-joining Neopets, so on a whim I did. My character name this time around is BamaAngels so if you’re on, look me up!
(boy, what I wouldn’t give to have all that NP stuff I gave away, LOL!!!)
Also, I am now an active Editor for Addons.Mozilla.org again. I feel badly for neglecting those duties for so long, but am happy to say that I’m now back and trying to do a little each week to help out the AMO gang. :D
Ike
I *love* the WPAU plugin. It works wonders… and even when it’s buggy it is easier. I especially enjoy being able to update without finagling someone else’s FTP site.
Nicki
Yeah, I was thinking about using it for several friends whose blogs I sometimes help “admin”.
I still want to test how it handles “highly customized” WordPress installs. This domain has several WP files that I’ve hacked and with each update, I compare files and update the code by hand where needed.
If WPAU handles that well, I may implement it into all of my own blogs (as well as my husband’s!). :)
Devilish Southern Belle
I will have to check out Automatic Upgrade. I thought I already had it, but I guess that was just for my plugins? It sure didn’t offer me the option to upgrade to 2.6 automatically. I had a bit of a hard time upgrading, but it all worked out so I wouldn’t categorize my own upgrade as a horror story. Sure seemed that way at first, though! I have just had one buggy issue, which I hope is not going to be an ongoing problem.
JoeFromBronx
I’m using your ever faithful theme (which is great!), but I can’t seem to get the comments to work correctly. When a comment is made, the leave a reply form remains on the page and there seems to be no way to exit out without refreshing the page. I’m real new at this, so I’m probably making an error some place. Thanks for your help.
Joe
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